Editing Page Content

Editing the content of pages with SBT is similar in many ways to editing with MS Word and many other document editors. SBT also does well accepting material copied from other sources and pasted in its editing window. You may not achieve exactly the results you want by pasting from another source if the formatting is complex. Keep this in mind if you chose to create your content in another application (Word, WordPerfect, FrontPage, etc.) then copy it into the SBT editing window: don't use overly complex formatting. Plain text, such as you'd copy from Notepad, is a safe source.

Editing page content typically involves navigating to the page and clicking the Edit this page icon in the page footer or header, which opens the Edit screen with the Pages tab and Main Content option selected.

Get Acquainted with the Edit Screen

Editing Page Content Example

Clicking the Home link in the “cookie crumbs” can be useful if you lose you orientation.

Two occurrences of disposition buttons (top and bottom):

Saves the content to the web server, but does not publish it (changes are not visible to users navigating to the page). Useful when content is in process, but not complete. You should click Save at any point in your editing where you don't want to risk losing what you've done.

Saves the content and publishes it, replacing what users see.

If you fail to click either Save or Publish before leaving a viewing mode—even within the Pages tab—you lose all unsaved edits.

Returns to the website, displaying the page you were editing. You lose all unsaved edits if you click this button without first clicking Save or Publish .

This is the major “oops” button—it restores the content of the page being edited to what most recently was saved or published. All unsaved edits are lost. Useful when you decide your edits are so badly compromised you want to revert to your last saved version.

Closes the edit window and reverts to the “picklist”—the screen that allows you to select a page to manage (see Find Pages on page 24 for more information on picklists). You lose all unsaved edits if you click this button without first clicking Save or Publish .

Content options:

In the database —the default setting that defines a page whose content is stored in the SBT database and edited using SBT tools.
At a URL —defines a pass-through page that redirects the user to a different web page (for more on this, see Create a Redirect Page on page 20 ).
In an include file —content from a file is presented to the user as if it were on this page. This is a special-use option whose use is beyond the scope of this document.

Click the Help icon to see a brief explanation of all toolbar icons.

This is the content area for the page as it appears when a page is newly created—it's your empty canvas for creating your page.

The scroll bar for the content editing area (not to be confused with the scroll bar for the full browser window).

SBT provides four tools to assist you in the editing process:

	Toggle Edit Mode —toggles between WYSIWYG view and HTML view. HTML is beyond the scope of this discussion, so all examples use the WYSIWYG option.
	Code Sweeper —a tool for cleaning up content copied from another source.
	Toggle Borders —toggles borders and gridlines for tables.
	Toggle Details —toggles showing paragraph marks.

soEditor Pro is the name of third-party editor component of SBT.

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